Tel Aviv (WDN) In a stunning and highly controversial development that has sparked outrage across the Muslim world and beyond, Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Irro’s visit to Jerusalem and the opening of a diplomatic office in the city, revered by Muslims as Islam’s third-holiest site, have triggered widespread condemnation and intense debate. Many view...
By Farah Aw-Osman Sometimes I ask myself a painful question: how did a people with one language, one religion, one culture, and one ethnicity end up becoming one of the longest collapsed states in the world? The truth is, Somalia did not collapse in one day, and it did not collapse because of one clan...
Mogadishu (WDN) — Somalia’s opposition coalition has reportedly presented the international community with a new electoral framework that could dramatically reshape the country’s political landscape and potentially provide a way out of the deepening constitutional and electoral crisis. The opposition’s electoral proposal, initially reported by WardheerNews, has now been formally unveiled and officially confirmed. According...
Kismayo (WDN)— The Jubaland administration has strengthened its military posture in Lower Jubba, deploying additional troops to frontline positions as part of an intensified campaign aimed at dismantling Al-Shabaab’s remaining strongholds in southern Somalia. The latest deployment underscores Jubaland’s determination to expand security operations across the region and reflects the administration’s growing confidence in its...
Mogadishu (WDN) – For months, former President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and his allies dismissed Somalia’s opposition as a collection of critics without solutions. The administration’s platitude refrain was simple: the opposition opposed the government’s one-person, one-vote election agenda but had failed to present a viable alternative. That simplistic argument is now rapidly unraveling. Political sources...
Mogadishu (WDN)- Somalia’s political landscape witnessed another extraordinary moment as former President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed launched one of his most blistering public attacks yet against former President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, exposing the depth of mistrust and bitterness that has come to define the country’s increasingly polarized political environment. Speaking before supporters and political allies, Sharif...
Hargeisa/TEL AVIV(WDN) – In a development that is sending shockwaves through Somali political circles, Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Irro and his delegation formally participated in the inaugural Somaliland-Israel Business Forum in Tel Aviv, a landmark event that many observers view as another step in the rapidly expanding relationship between Somaliland and Israel. According to...
By Omar Abdi Shire Introduction Somalia remains one of the world’s fragile states. More than three decades after the collapse of the central government in 1991, the country continues to struggle with institutional weakness, dependence on external actors, social fragmentation, and a profound deficit of political trust. Yet after thirty years of state-building efforts, an...
Garowe (WDN) – Puntland has formally ordered that military personnel and vehicles operating under the authority of Somalia’s Federal Government will no longer be permitted to enter, transit through, or remain within Puntland territory, marking a dramatic escalation in the long-running dispute between Garowe and Mogadishu. In a statement issued following a meeting of the...
By Mohamed A Yasin Puntland was once celebrated as one of Somalia’s most successful political experiments. Established in 1998 amid the collapse of the Somali state, it earned a reputation for relative stability, grassroots governance, and institutional development. While much of the country struggled with conflict and political fragmentation, Puntland presented itself as a model...